On 31/07/16 13:22, David Sommerseth wrote: > On 30/07/16 11:40, Samuli Seppänen wrote: >> Il 29/07/2016 21:13, Jonathan K. Bullard ha scritto: >>> Yesterday Lars Ingebrigtsen, who established and has run Gmane since >>> 2002, posted an article saying that Gmane might go away [1]. >>> >>> He posted an update [2] which says the Gmane archive *has* gone away >>> and unless someone steps up to take it over, it is gone for good. >>> >>> The OpenVPN mailing list archives are still available on SourceForge, >>> but it might be worth thinking about adding openvpn-dev and >>> openvpn-users to The Mail Archive [3] or some other such service. >>> >>> [1] https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane >>> [2] >>> https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2016/07/28/the-end-of-gmane/comment-page-1/#comment-13502 >>> [3] https://www.mail-archive.com >>> >> >> I looked at the mail-archive FAQ and that seemed promising. I'll take a >> closer look in a couple of weeks. >> >> Based on comments in the second link there's a real chance that nobody >> will reimplement a Web UI for Gmane for hosting the archive data, and >> that links to Gmane will be gone forever. > > On LWN there are some more comments to these sad news. I understand > Lars' motivation to step down, and I hope someone will manage to pick up > after Lars. The reason is that gmane is mailing list archive I've found > which has a sane thread view (which also responded to keytboard events). > > Jon Corbet says in a comment: > > I've been talking a bit with Lars; money doesn't seem to be the > issue. He's really just ready to hand it off. I think we might have > found a good prospective home for gmane, but it will take a little > while to know for sure. > > And I see that cloudflare has been put in front of gmane.org now (though > not yet working). So these might be some traces of that. > > Anyhow, this scenario is why we put Message-ID in our commit logs. The > URL to gmane.org was primarily for convenience, the Message-ID field is > the mandatory field in our commit messages. So unless gmane.org > re-appears or something better comes up, we will just update our git > scripts to use a different convenience URL.
And I forgot to add the URL to the LWN article ... <https://lwn.net/Articles/695695/> -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
